A woman in Australia has given birth to a healthy baby boy
from sperm which was harvested two days after the death of the father
The boy’s mother had to battle Australia's
Supreme Court to get permission to ‘harvest’ her late husband’s sperm
after he was killed in a motorbike accident.
Doctors
were not certain it would be successful because it took the courts two
days to decide whether the mother should be allowed to use his sperm to
conceive.
It isn’t the first time that sperm has
been taken from a dead man to create a baby, but it is 18 hours longer
than has been done in the past.
IVF expert, Steve
Robson, said, "On a professional level this has been, from my
perspective, a love story, and it has been incredible to be involved
with helping a woman who has so much love and courage."
The mother had to go to Canberra from Adelaide to have the procedure because it is illegal in Adelaide.
Professor
Kelton Tremellen, who carried out the procedure, said, "One reason was
that I thought it was going to be a waste of time, and the other was I
didn’t know if it was the right thing to do.
In
the end I decided I would do it because I felt it wasn’t a battle she
should have to fight at that point when she had just lost her husband."
No comments:
Post a Comment